Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [v-ing] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition to changes in existing trades , such as engineering and boot and shoe manufacture , new trades were developing from the 1880s : sewing-machines , cycles , and motor and electrical manufacture . |
| 2 | The , we did er our baths were dating from the nineteen fourteen period and they were getting rather old the , the , the boiler was n't too good and we were afraid that it might burst at some time . |
| 3 | However traffic conditions were changing in the Fifties as car ownership increased , both reducing passengers and increasing road traffic at the same time . |
| 4 | Patients were dying by the hundreds , but there was nobody to carry away the corpses . |
| 5 | He did in the end manage to reach Liverpool Street station just as the passengers were coming off the two-twenty from Ipswich . |
| 6 | Two Kirkwall solicitors were acting for the four families . |
| 7 | Dietary concentrations of other minerals and of vitamins were according to the AIN-76 recommendations . |
| 8 | ‘ Afterwards some of the children were talking about the Three Wise Queens . ’ |
| 9 | Hortensia paused to observe the effect these remarks were having on the two titchy ones . |